design, museums, etc.

Category Archives: Science and Technology

Artefacts Series
learning from science and technology museums

Cases of science and technology museums that have pursued an explicit and strategic policy of collecting and exhibiting industrial arts and design are quite rare. One can mention the Národní technické muzeum (National Technical Museum) in Prague, which comprises collections of Industrial design and Consumer industry – the Museum is currently closed, under renovation, [...]

Industrial Design at the Canada Science
and Technology Museum, Ottawa

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In 2009 the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa started a programme and strategy to collect and exhibit industrial design. While the programme is still under development, some points seem to be quite clear. As far as can be learned from the considerations made by the curatorial [...]

Designing Modern Germany
some considerations on the role of museums

Designing Modern Germany by Jeremy Aynsley, published this year, is a text full of information and based on an important set of sources and references. The study is lead by the will of the author to understand and make clear how «cultural difference can be acutely perceived through design» (ibid., p. 22). Concluding the Introduction, [...]

The Ultimate Machine
Technisches Museum Wien

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Davide Moises (1973-), The Ultimate Machine nach Claude E. Shannon,
Die Sammlung David Moises, Multimediale Installation, 2009
Technisches Museum Wien
This installation by David Moises is part of a series of art works which has been created to celebrate [...]

Random Quote

… museum visiting needs practice; and visiting museums where artifacts do the talking needs the most practice of all. — 
Roger Bridgman, Information Age. A Critique, in Exposing Electronics, 2000, p. 149

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